C Job Trends in Loughborough

C
Leicestershire > Loughborough

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Loughborough requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Permanent jobs citing C 9 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Loughborough 6.08% - 5.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.32% - 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £42,500
75th Percentile £71,250 - £46,250
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £67,500 £56,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year +20.54% +28.00% -

All Programming Languages
Loughborough

C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Loughborough.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 37 12 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Loughborough 25.00% 44.44% 41.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 29
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,000 £52,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +29.41% -14.98%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £95,000
Leicestershire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -13.64%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Loughborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Loughborough.

C job vacancy trend in Loughborough

C
Salary Trend in Loughborough

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Loughborough citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Loughborough citing C

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Loughborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS IoT
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Wi-Fi
1 8 (88.89%) Wireless
2 2 (22.22%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (22.22%) MQTT
2 2 (22.22%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) GDB
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IoT Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 9 (100.00%) IoT
2 8 (88.89%) Device Driver
3 2 (22.22%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (66.67%) Device Driver Development
4 3 (33.33%) Software Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Edge Computing
5 2 (22.22%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C++
2 6 (66.67%) Embedded C
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google